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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
GUT A BRIDGE IN TWO.


EAsTPoRr, Me, june 15.-James B.
leighton, Of Perry was arragned here,
charged with obstructing the highway and
cutting away the bridge across Little River
i'll the town Of Perry. Leighton, who owns
mill at the head of the river, where he
manufactures Hath, and shingles, asked the
last legislature that draw be placed in the
bridge to allow the passage of vessels, This
was refused, and recently Leighton aided
by two other men, went down by night and
sawed the bridge in two, it is said, allowing
the center to fall into the water. lie also
barricaded the road at the end of the bridge,
thus obstructing travel and the United
States mail, it being the stage or mail
route. The town authorities of Perry EN-
ployed Judge Rounds and A. McNichol Of
Calais, to prosecute Leighton.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
A STONE TIED TO THE ARMS.
A Body Found ia the Connecticut at
Turner's Falls.

GREENFIELD Mass, June 1.-THE body
of an unknown man has been picked up in
the Connecticut river, at Turner's Falls. 1t
had floated down from the north. \
stout rope was found attached to the arms
to which stone had evidently been tied.
Whether it is the boil of suicide or the
clue that may develop INTO n murder is
not yet determined. The body has been
taken in charge 10y Medical Examiner Coy
who viii make an autopsy.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
DEATH OF MARK HOPKINS


NORTH ADAMS, Mas. June 1s.-Ex-
President Mark Hopkins Of Williams college
is dead, in his sGth year. His death was
unexpected, and was tn result of gradual
decay. Like the ''on# horse shay OF
famous workmanship his strength held to
gether till the last He was in good spirits
and apparently vigorous Wednesday. He
gave up proposed carriage ride Thursday,
but did not appear sick.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

BosToN June 16.-Foul play is suspected
in the case of pretty Olive j. Woodland,
who died at lodging house on Chambers
street last week The cause of death was
givel as TYPHOID fever and secondary
septicaemia." There is, however, reason
to believe that she had been betrayed by a
married man, and her death was sus-
piciously sudden. The body will probably
be exhumed for an autopsy.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 1.-The loo
mile bicycle race run on the public road,
near Charlottesville, was won by Rhodes.
Time h., is. Crocker was second.
The fifty mile race had a close and exct-
ing finish, Croker coming in first. Time
3h., 30 m. So S. Rhodes was two seconds
later, and Hollingsworth's time was 3 h,
50 m.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
THEY STOP LAW-TINkERING.


BosToN, June l1.-Thc legislature of 1887
was prorogued soon after II O'Clock last
night, having been in session for 1913 days,
the shortest since 1884, when it sat for 100
days: in 1885, 1874 days, and in 1885, 11G
days, The closing hours were marked by
the passage of the Acton bounty resolve
over the veto, and the defeat of the salary
and state house bills
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

Gen. Boulanger will soon receive a COM
mand in the French army
Mrs. Helen NJ Hatch, postmaster at Lower
Cabot, Vt.
George Gould 10 going to Labrador in his
new yacht next month, with his wife and Q
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
ROSWELL DWIGHT HITCHCOCK DEAD
The Eminent Theologian Passes Away at
Fall River.

FALL RIVER, Mass, June 1S.-Roswel
Dwight Hitchcock ID. LII. D., died here
yesterday. He was born in East Machias,
Me-. Aug. Is, 1917.
He had been president of Union Theolog-
ical seminary of New York for many years
His theological writings are of world wide
fame.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

Bos1oN, June l5-A fire occurred this
morning in st. Mary's Episcopal church
Bowdon street, Dorchester. When the
department arrived the building was all
in flames and was practically destroyed.
The cause of the fire is unknown, and no
estimate Of the loss can be made this morn
ing.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

LONDON. June l5.-At Coventry, Wood
side of Philadelphia, lowered the bicycle
record for five miles, doing the distance in
lam. 20 lbs He will now challenge
Howell to nnnthnr cnnte-t
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
CONDENSED NEWS.


JOSEPH Dec, "a years old, while bathing
In Nashua river Nashua, y, H., was taken
with cramps and drowned.
Two young men, While playing ball at
Marblehead Mass. eu'hded, one rceei' ing
fatal injuries, it is feared
The Atlantic beat the Galatea Ia the Cor
inthan Yacht club regatta In New York, by
SIN. 36s Boston cutter Huron beaten by
the Cinderella, by 2ym, 59s.
Twenty brewers employed at the QUAINT
piac brewery. New Haven, Conn, struck.
The company refusal to reinstate dis
charged employee caused the strike.
" 5 Phelps. a student at Phillips academy
and resident of Jnffrey, y. II, was
drowned at Andover while bathing in com
pany with a few other companions at the
Iopular swimming resort frequented by the
students.
Professor Baird has recovered from his
recent sickness sufficiently to take drives
about Washington. II IS expected that he
will leave for Wood, Holl, Mass, about
July 1. to superintend the work Of the fish
commission at that place.
While a number Of men were examining
a charge which had failed in Rain Il
Kaufman stone quarry near Leesport,
Penn it exploited with great force, fatally
in turing Francis Z kau imam and Phillip
Sehaefer, and severely rnyuring three
others
United States Consul Eekstan at Amster-
dam in a report to the department Of state
upon the acquisition Of land in Sumatra by
foreigners. nuses an interesting fact that the
two principal companies in Holland engaged
in the culture II tobacco III Sumatra, have
Just declared yearly dividends amounting to
l0~i. per cent ami 100 Per cent.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
JOSEPH DUoUETTE's END.
He Wounds His wife with n Bullet and
Kills Himself.

WORCESTER, Mass, June 16-Joseph
Duquette, of Southbrdge shot his wife in
the head and then shot himself through the
heart, at Southbridge, Duquette died in
stantly His wife will recover Family
Troubles wero the cause.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

CONCORD, y. H., June William f.
Chandler was Yesterday elected Unite
States senator for the unexpired term of
the late Senator Pike having majority of
the votes of both houses
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

A Spanish countess was forcibly kid
mapped in Paris.
The excitement in the Chicago wheat
market subsidized kershaw & Co. met all
obligations.
y freshet in the Agawam river did con
siderable damage in the vicinity of Ware
ham. Mass
Franklin p. Killion newsboy IL
years of age, was instantly killed by a train
at Providence.
Emperor William Is SO much better that
his doctors will let him go to Ems the
middle of next week
Capt William Murchison, of Jackson,
Tenn, who tasted for ninety days viii fast
10 longer. He is dead.
1t is said that the backbone of the coke
strike is broken and that all the outs will
shortly be working again.
james o Brien, while at work at Brigh-
ton, Mass, was seriously injured by the
premature discharge of blast
The University of the City of New York,
conferred the degree of ID. on Rev
Charles Van NOrden of Springfield, Mass
The Washington Manufacturing company
of Philadelphia, cotton and wooden goods,
has suspended payment. Liabilities $780,
UBU assets.
There has been a great contiagration in
the town of Botuschany, Roumania. Eight
hundred houses were destroyed and seven
persons We're killed.
Arthur r. Lahore, the 2-year-old son of
Peter Lahore, fell from third story win
dow at Pitts.ied, Mass, and fractured his
skull He died in two hours.
The steel sloop yacht which Gen. Paine of
Boston is having built at Wilmington,
Del to defend the Americas cup will prob
ably he launched next week. She will go
to Boston to he fitted ont.
The English jubilee festivities are in
progress. High society in London is giving
receptions, the yacht race is going on, con-
CALCULATIONS are in order from religious and
social sources, and there is talk about dyna-
mite as IA feature of the event
J. E. johnson, one of the wealthiest men
in Wichita, Kan, was found in his sleeping
room suffering from pistol wound near
the heart. How the shooting occurred is a
mystery. johnson refuses to make any
statement regarding the affair
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

Gosemor Amrs has >isnd the West
End BIZ.
Tie seventh Massachusetts regiment had
n reunion at Nantaskct.
Carlisle d. Graham rode the Niagara
Whirlpool rapids i'll Il barrel boat
Daniel Burnett of Ilcrmon. Ne, died
from the effect, of IA fail from II wagon.
Perce's satnet mill at Leicester. Mass
was burned, loss Sl3, 600, insurance 3d.
900.
The possibility Of a union of Christian
sccts was discussed Mt the annual gathering
Of the Andoyer theological alumni
Speaker Carlisle speaks about the proba-
hiity of an extra session; the contrao tion
Of the currency may be SO great to
quire it in Order to prevent "A panic.
Tony Mulnne, the refractory pitcher Of
the Cincinnati club, who has been playing in
Rutland, has been rcinstatcd Icy the assoca-
ton, and has started FOR Cincinnati.
The American Telephone company of
Washington whose affairs have been ex-
auined on account of the discoveries as to
the career of Tyrer, its vice president,
offers to refund the subscriptions of dissatis
fled stockholders.
The somewhat famous Mrs. Weltha A.
Emmons, who is confined to her hotel at
boston by sickness. tells a reporter that she
has re eived letter from her lawyer, with
an official notification that the auditor of
the court in which she Ind been tried had
decided that she must pay the entire court
expenses over SD 900.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
few friends.

{
Chief Justice George g. McWhorter of
the superior court Of Florida, has resigned
because of ll-health,
Peter Barrows, of North Springfield, Vt,
81, was killed while chopping in tho woods
10y tree falling upon him
Capt Gilbert Long, while giving an exhl-
btion with torpedo in the water at South
Boston, was seriously injured.
Queen Victoria arrived at Windsor. She
was heartily cheered by the people along
the route from the railway station
The king OF Greece and the king OF Den
mark arrived in London to participate III
the celebration of the queens jubilee.
The soldiers monument at Arlington was
dedicated Grafton by Lieutenant Governor
Bra kett: poem by John 7. Trowbridge
Don Alonzo Watson, of Rochester,N Y,
has given $JO, 00O to endow a chair OF poht-
ical economy and history in the University
of Rochester.
Elk Representative John S. Wise, the Re-
publican candidate for governor Of Virginia
at the last election, has accepted an invita-
ton to deliver the Fourth Of July Grafton
in Philadelphia.
There was a banquet in Faneuil hall to
the Confederate veterans Of Richmond, Va.
Speeches by Governor Ames Senator Hoar
John Gooie and George d. Wise, Of Nir-
gina Henry Cabot Lodge and others
The lock out ct the New York silver
smiths is practically, over, and nearly all
the men vii he back at work Saturday or
Monday 1t Is understood they have
Welded to the demand OF the employers,
tina, they promise to sever their connection
with the Knights Of Labor. The silver
chasers, however, still refuse to yield.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

wednesday, 'h"t i"'
Emperor v lhaH Is making remarkable
progress toward recovery.
\ statue of Nathun Hale, the Revolution
AIRY hero, Wa formally ulseiled ut Hartford,
Conn
The Brazilian coffee market seems unaf-
f., til ty the New York panic and prices
ar higher there
one hundred and fifty Italians arrived at
Old Orchard Me, from Boston, and began
work an the water works
The government side in the Bell tele
phone suit at Boston. was presented by eI-
Solicitor General Gooie and OK Senator
Thurman.
Fred Houston selectman Of SearSport
Ne. in fit Of temporary insanity shot him
sell dead in a club room in that place.
George Makcpeace Towle, of Boston will
deliver the Grafton at the celebration OF the
queens jubilee at Newport. r. l., Tuesday.
The postmaster general has appointed
Mary $. Gates postmaster at South Robbiu-
ston. Me, and Amos L. Hayes at Acton,
Mass.
Sears, the national laSn tennis champion
and Slorum, rated a one OF the best play
ers in the country. were defeated in the tour
nament Mt New Haven.
The new premier OF Seryia is "A man OF
strong pro Russian sympathies. His eleva-
tion Is considered n check to Austria and a
gain for Russia in the Balkans.
1t is reported that the British government
intends to prosecute Michael Dayitt and
Joseph Richard Cox, for their condu t in
melting the Bodyke tenants to resist civic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-29
The Owl.
eft on the hill.

There is no fame of sunset on the hill.
There is no flush OF twilight in the plain;
sAhe day is dead, the wind is weird and shri]l.
Amid the gloom the sheeted shapes of rain
And wilder than the woods autumnal moan
"A voice walls through the night, Alone,
Rlone.''
No bird dips down moment in its flight
To fill the silence full of sudden song;
The inmemorial music of the night,
When stars are few and twilight fingers
long,
Is hnshed; with lone, sharp sound of wintry
blight,
The cricket quavers near the sheltered
stone
And bark! the haunting cry, "Alone, alonep'
Van mfsts on level marsh and meadow rise,
Like spectral lakes along whose cloudy
CLEANS
Dark boats are driven, unseen of mortal eyes,
Toward some dim coast, some inland-yale of
dreams,
u bile on this desolate shore some watcher
cries
To friends afar in the remote unknown,
8@Gmenting through the gloom, alone alone!'
ZIe bong1is are shaken in the bitter sky
with hollow sound of trouble and amaze:
LAKE palld ghosts pursued through lonely
ways:
I3zrhiy watch them they shudder by,
While yet again in mournful monotone
The voice repeats my thought, alone, alOne!'
light deepens on the haggard close of day
With wilder clamOr of the wind and rain;
.IDuGer the beaten branches groan and sway;
And htfully the voice comes once again,
aAHrsSs the fields, more faint and far away
13r my own heart that cries, "Alone alonep'
Charles Lotin Hildreth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-29
n story About q Cat.

Lin a little thicket of Shrubbery and
tangled grass in the northeast corner
of the Roosevelt hospital grounds a
harmless cat crouched on Monday
afternoon, as secure from the burning
rays of the sun as she was from the
sharp eyes of the gamins of the neigh
borhood. She was a highly dis
reputable-looking, cat, without any
apparent regard for her personal APP
pearance. The fur on her long, ema-
ciated body pointed in all directions,
and there was'a patch Of red mud on
the top of her head:
She kept her eyes aimed straight
through the iron ratings and at every
step that sounded on the hot pave
ment she leaned forward and peerz1
cautiously out. After q close sury B
of the person she shrank back ag;. 4.
She was evidently watching for soee-
body, but whether she was there by
appointment or not could not be
learned.
It was nearly 5 o'clock when a cor
pulent gentleman with benevolent
face appeared at the further end of the
street and laboriously approached.
The thumps of his cane on tlS pave
ment sent out an echo that reached the
ears of the cat and agitated her
strangely. Her spine rose up in a
bow. her tail pulled out, and her ears
pointed forward. Suddenly she sprang
through the iron railing upon the side
walk, ran purringly up to the old gentle
man, and rubbed up against his leg.
The old gentleman was nightly aston
ished at this.
BLESS my soul. he exclaimed, land
is it you?"
The cat purred afirmatively.
1--WE all thought you were lost, " said
the old gentleman. Nov, | guess
you had better come home and get
cleaned up again. But | give you fair
warming, he shouted as he waved his
his cane, 'sI'll drown every kitten"
Then the old man turned about and
went wheeling back the way he came,
with the cat trotting and racing be-
hind, alongside, and ahead of him
-NeeO York San.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-29
Fishing, and Catching Fish.

The article. First Days Fishing,
IA the american -Agrieuturtst, hit me
gust where my memory is the longest.
1t recalls the time. over sixty years
ago, when my clothes were VET.
stone-bruise on my heel, and toe nail
stubbed off, | had just such an old
crooked tish-pole. l then cut my fish
poles IN the woods, and no one that
has never tried it has any idea what a
Job 1T Is TO get 4 straight one. A sap
ing looks straight; you cut it down
and trim it. Then there are so many
crooks in it that you reject it and cut
several more before You get one to
suit Any one who ever cut fish poles
knows how it is. The boy asked what
was the difference between going for
fish and going fishing. Hist father said
to catch fish was to get a few scalv
things not worth much, but going fish
ing was quite another thing. 1t in
cluded the sunshine and the birds. and
the murmur of the brooks, and many
other things. That father was like
thousands of others who 90 fishing
and bring home memories of pleasant
hours OF the murmuring waters and
sunshine and birds. But a look in the
basket may reveal no fish there, unless
the fisher has met some boy on the
stream who did not not know or care
whether there were any birds or sun
shine that day or not, SO that be got
the fish and sold them to the fellow
that was seeing everything else, eX-
cept a favorable hole to east his line.
Now | don't say I never see any
thing while | am fishing. | do as
much looking about as any man when
ana not fishing. But when am fish
ing, | do nothing else If the fish
don't bite l am wondering if my bait
is all right, and | don't go long with
out a bite before | look at my bait and
make some change in it. If nothing
more, take it off and put it on again.
Then | jerk it little faster or a little
slower and let it sink to the bottom,
let it lie a minute, then give it sharp
jerk, and if there is no bite change
places or let out the line and get the
bait farther away from me. Ii fly
fishing | have number of motions to
give the fly. Sometimes one motion
will coax the fly fish to bite and some
times another. But / am fishing all
the time.-Seth Green, Ia american
Agriculturtst.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-29

"Gna.S f:and was IN u al, my child;
but for my hearing your voice in song
| might never have found YOU"
Mr.. Denvers was the early lover Of
Mrs. Merle He accompanied Nellie
home that morning. and the surprise
of her mother can better be imagined
than described. Every thing was ex-
planned, and the wrongs were at last
righted
Hugh told her how he wrote several
letters, but receiving no answer. he
believed her false. He worked hard
and prospered. At length longing
came over him to see his native city
once more.
He was an orphan, and had no near
connection living. He made enquiries
for Mr. Myers, but no one knew of his
whereabouts. About five years before
he came to the city, and settled, never
expecting to see her again.
but now, Elsie, [ find YOU once
more, and do not mean to let YOU 20,
if will of mine can keep you. The
love that was kindled in my heart for
you twenty years ago burns just as
bright to-day. VIII you come, and let
the remaining years of our life be spent
together"
That Mrs. Merle's answer was salts
factory is proved by the fact that the
brown stone fronted house of Hugh
Denvers soon had mistress. and as
Nellie said:
'Mother, we did plunge al at once
into she good old times, didn't wes"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-29
Fierce Men of the West.

At the September election of 1851 a
crowd was gathered, in front of saloon
st Granite Basin, a mining town in
California, smoking, drinking, and
entertaining each other with rude jests
and laughter. Somewhat apart, re-
lates II. III. Bancroft in Popular
Tribunals" stood a hard-visaged,
cross grained man, but withal honest
and industrious. He had gained the
ill-will of his fellows by his unsoc1al
and morose manner rather than by any
real wrong-doing. As the crowd be-
came excited by liquor their CONVEX
sation turned upon this man, and one
story followed another accusing him
of falsehood and of other evil ways
Hearing his name used he drew a
pocket-knife and stabbed one or two
men, each of whom was more power
full than himself. Several wounds
We're inflicted, but none Of a serious
nature. Maddened at the sight of
blood the crowd rushed upon him,
threw him down and pounded him
savagely. But this was not enough;
binding him to chair they hurried
him off to hang him to the nearest tree.
NCIG u iO dNd Ill. NO
eXtenuating circumstances would be
considered, nor would they listen to
his prayer for trial by jury. Reach
ing suitable place, they released him
from the chair and stood him beneath
an oak tree, Then tying one end of
rope round his neck and throwing the
other end over limb, twenty strong
men took hold with will and awaited
the signal. At that critical moment
three men stepped forward. One
drew a knife and severed the rope,
while the others faced the crowd.
There was quiet but bloody resolution
in their eyes, and the half-drunken
hangmen saw it and wavered. For six
hours they faced each other until cool
CT reason returned to the maddened
men, and they gradually dispersed,
leaving the law to dispose Of the case
in a less summary manner.
But the miners are not always so
hasty in administering what they call
justice. A travelling Frenchman re-
lated that on reaching Hawkins bar
he saw Mexican tied to the trunk of
tree and surrounded by a crowd.
The culprit was stripped to the waist.
and u dozen men armed with brides
and stirrup straps were whipping him
by turns. His ofense, they said, was
the murder of bedfellow. Though
his back was covered with blood and
his face was deadly pale, with charac-
teristic stoicism the Mexican uttered
no complaint, but held the end of a
cigar between his clinched teeth, rs if
in defiance of fate. Two hours later,
on entering tavern, the Frenchman
was surprised to see the same man at
a table with his eXecutioners drinking
gin and whisky. He supposed the
affair ended; but the same evening he
found the Mexican hanging from the
branch of an oak. Out of compassion
for the wretch's suffering the judges
had taken the means of deadening his
pain before they hanged him.